We have added a Gift Upgrades feature that allows you to gift an account upgrade to another member, just in time for the holiday season. You can see the gift option when going to the Account Upgrades screen, or on any user profile screen.

Yep, the thread is kind of to be used later, at least when the next alpha is out. The bugs that are to be prioritized are those that really forbid people to play, i.e. crashes, like those we encoutered when toying with the tech tree.

Try my small expansion for Dawn of Civilization, including Israel and Teotihuacan as new civilizations.

Virtually nothing has been done to change civics yet. That's probably going to be one of the last things done in the alpha. Thanks for pointing out the outdated bits, though, it'll help when we get to it.